Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).

Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).

The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/

“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.

Matt Brailsford used a modified old tape player as interface to this Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server, so listener can use the player (and the cassettes) as physical interface to the different playlists.

1970, the IBM 1403 printer plays a tune

Long before the orchestrations of [The User] and their symphony for needle printers, there was someone who, in 1970, could extract melodies from a noisy printer. It was the IBM 1403 printer (made in 1964), from which some engineers were able to obtain ‘covers’ of famous tunes by studying which characters to feed to the machine to obtain a certain note and how many times to print them to have a note of a certain length. Each note was contained in a punched card. Ron Mak is the owner of the freely downloadable recordings, which he donated to the Computer History Museum, which is ready to insert them in its ‘online exhibit‘. These ‘sessions’ were held in the Richmond (California) Unified School District computer room, putting a microphone next to the printer. The ‘Blue Danube’ waltz, particularly, has a yearning sound, as if coming from a faraway and mechanical time, but the other melodies, such as ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head’, ‘In Excelsius Deo’, ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’ and ‘Born Free’ are just as surprising.